by Laurie R. Blank, Adam Oler | Dec 17, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
From Burning Sands to Baltic Gavel: Impressions from an Evolving Wargame As coalition forces fight to stop Russian invaders moving through Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, commercial drones fly over the battlespace and Russian fifth columns conduct sabotage operations...
by Laurie R. Blank, Eric Jensen, Daphné Richemond-Barak, Larry Lewis | May 26, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies
Technology, Humanity, and the End of War The role of new technologies in targeting—including GPS-guided weapons, battle networks, collateral damage estimation methodology (CDEM), cyber, drones, and autonomous weapons—has been the focus of extensive analysis by...
by Laurie R. Blank | Mar 4, 2021 | AoW Posts, Topics, Use of Force
The Legitimate Aims of Self-Defense The United States’ strike on Iranian-backed militias along the Syria-Iraq border on February 25 and the accompanying justifications, communications, and explanations have produced a flurry of legal discourse across the...
by Laurie R. Blank, Daphné Richemond-Barak | Nov 12, 2020 | AoW Posts, Interpretation & Development, Topics
Ending Wars: The Law of War’s Latest Source of Stress The nineteenth anniversary of 9/11 offered a telling reminder of the problem of “forever wars.” In the United States, few Americans under the age of thirty can remember when the country was not involved in...